Purpose: Students will create their own book of free verse poems about things that are going on in their lives, starting from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
Audience: student writers
Genre: poem journal (reader-as-writer)
Engagement: The students will get to participate in writing free verse poems. This gives them the opportunity to experience another type of writing style that they might not normal think of when they think about a novel.
Assignment: Many students can connect with the main character Billie Jo, in that like her they may have lost a parent and are having a difficult time dealing with it. They may also have had feelings of loneliness and want to run away. So for this assignment students will read the novel Out of the Dust. Upon completion they will write in a journal each day or each week about what is going on in their life. The journal must be written in free verse and dated, like Billie Jo does. The students will keep this journal from when they first finish the novel to the month before the school year ends.
Example:
The gas prices are still pretty low in some places.
I thought it would be a good idea to stop
Since the price at the station I pass
Is lower than everywhere in the area.
I hope this lasts me the next few days
Or at least until I get my check.
April 2013
What does it teach?
This text teaches students that there are many ways that one can express themselves through writing. It also teaches them that free verse poems can also be made into a novel. Novels can be written in many different forms. A novel isn’t just chapters bunched together that talk about what is going on in a person’s life day by day. Novels can skip days and be written in different ways to create an unbelievably amazing story about the obstacles the main character has to overcome. It also shows students that their writting doesn't have to be all straight lines that go from left to right. In Pleasures chapter 11 on pages 259 and 260 the author talks about the shape of a poem. Students can make their poem in the shape of what the main focus of the poem is. Like in the example I made above, I could have made it into the shape of a gas pump or gas can. Mentor
I can help to show children how to express themselves. It shows that there are many different outlets in which the students can use. It can also help them to see that they aren’t the only ones who go through tuff times like, socio-economic status, death of a family member, loneliness, and even new people joining the family. If a poem is in the shape of the main focus it can help the reader to get a better visual of what thee author of the peom is talking about.
Similar text
To compose a similar text to Out of the Dust would mean that students understand that everyone goes through hardships and that no one person has the same life or life style. I would mean that at some point the reader was able to connect with the characters in the story or were at least able to sympathize with them given the situation the characters are put in. It would also mean that the students are also open to trying new methods of writing when creating a story. They aren’t close-minded when it comes to new things or expressing their feelings. It allows them to connect even more with the character when comprising a text of their own.
Audience: student writers
Genre: poem journal (reader-as-writer)
Engagement: The students will get to participate in writing free verse poems. This gives them the opportunity to experience another type of writing style that they might not normal think of when they think about a novel.
Assignment: Many students can connect with the main character Billie Jo, in that like her they may have lost a parent and are having a difficult time dealing with it. They may also have had feelings of loneliness and want to run away. So for this assignment students will read the novel Out of the Dust. Upon completion they will write in a journal each day or each week about what is going on in their life. The journal must be written in free verse and dated, like Billie Jo does. The students will keep this journal from when they first finish the novel to the month before the school year ends.
Example:
The gas prices are still pretty low in some places.
I thought it would be a good idea to stop
Since the price at the station I pass
Is lower than everywhere in the area.
I hope this lasts me the next few days
Or at least until I get my check.
April 2013
What does it teach?
This text teaches students that there are many ways that one can express themselves through writing. It also teaches them that free verse poems can also be made into a novel. Novels can be written in many different forms. A novel isn’t just chapters bunched together that talk about what is going on in a person’s life day by day. Novels can skip days and be written in different ways to create an unbelievably amazing story about the obstacles the main character has to overcome. It also shows students that their writting doesn't have to be all straight lines that go from left to right. In Pleasures chapter 11 on pages 259 and 260 the author talks about the shape of a poem. Students can make their poem in the shape of what the main focus of the poem is. Like in the example I made above, I could have made it into the shape of a gas pump or gas can. Mentor
I can help to show children how to express themselves. It shows that there are many different outlets in which the students can use. It can also help them to see that they aren’t the only ones who go through tuff times like, socio-economic status, death of a family member, loneliness, and even new people joining the family. If a poem is in the shape of the main focus it can help the reader to get a better visual of what thee author of the peom is talking about.
Similar text
To compose a similar text to Out of the Dust would mean that students understand that everyone goes through hardships and that no one person has the same life or life style. I would mean that at some point the reader was able to connect with the characters in the story or were at least able to sympathize with them given the situation the characters are put in. It would also mean that the students are also open to trying new methods of writing when creating a story. They aren’t close-minded when it comes to new things or expressing their feelings. It allows them to connect even more with the character when comprising a text of their own.